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Consider, for example, the 1922 compact that determines the allocation of water from the Colorado River. Scientists have shown, by studying tree rings and other historical evidence, that the allocation was based on water flows that were the highest they had been for more than 475 years. By contrast, the flows since 1999 rank among the lowest. As a result, Lake Powell, the giant reservoir created on the Colorado by the Glen Canyon Dam, stands some 60% below capacity and seems destined to fall even lower. No wonder that states like Colorado--whose rights to that water are trumped...
...many critics dismiss Davis, 56, as a purveyor of schlock, the Lawrence Welk of New Age. They are not impressed that Mannheim Steamroller, whose name derives from the German for crescendo, has performed twice at the lighting of the National Christmas Tree or that right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is a big fan. Romantic Melodies, a recent CD that scored the biggest week-over-week sales increase in Billboard history, was scorned by one critic for "anesthetic properties (that) would surely soothe ... in a proctologist's waiting room." Another compared Mannheim's violin-heavy harmonies to an orchestra...
...Outdoor Life Across the road from the gas station forecourt, an Aboriginal family have made their home beneath a slender tree; friends and relatives come and go. "The grass keeps the wind off," explains father Leslie Robbor (standing, with back to the camera). On weekday mornings, his son Darren and daughters Brenda and Jasmine scrub up in the ablution block and go into the roadhouse, where manager Jones gives them breakfast and correspondence lessons sent from the Aboriginal community at Kalkarinji, 170 km to the south. If the kids are good, they get to cool off afterward in the roadhouse...
...Barbara Sturt, of the Jaru, sits beneath a tree in the yard of Halls Creek's Yarliyil Arts Centre and points to her dazzlingly bright canvas. "Here are the Rainbow Snakes," she says shyly, tying her tale to a myth that features in almost all Aboriginal cosmology. "They go in here, and everywhere they come up they make a creek or billabong." The snakes are believed responsible for much of Australia's topography, moving under the ground, carving waterways, coiled and sleeping under hills and mountains...
...gloves sodden from slippery branches, Shaw and other members of the local Aboriginal community have scrambled for an hour through steep rainforest to reach this spot in the island's wild southwest. Here at the base of a rough limestone bluff, half-hidden by the immense arching fronds of tree ferns, a dark cave mouth gapes crookedly, big enough to admit a man almost upright. But Shaw, the head of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Land Council, suddenly feels uneasy - not about the bugs or the damp, but about the ancestors who gathered in the cavern's gloom, perhaps tens of thousands...